Lighthouse

I'd take £4m for Fonte but I doubt he would go to a Championship club.

I haven't seen enough of either to compare to Lallana and Lambert but I am very happy with the deals over all. Pelle is 3 years younger than Lambert who I predict will have a relatively poor season at Liverpool. We basically built a team around him at Saints and he was focal to the way we play. At Liverpool he wont have that, he will be a small fish in a big pond and wont be a regular starter. Would be surprised if he gets into double figures personally, though I do wish him well. I'd rather have Pelle, Tadic and an extra £10m in the bank, I'll put it that way.

Still a difference in class between a Real Madrid player, starting for the strongest German team in 30 years and a Southampton player on the bench for the sh*ttest England team in at least 20 years. We got good prices for everyone we've sold so far.

Yarp

One has to feel sorry for Liverpool, they've had some ugly gits over the last couple of years. Suarez, Kuyt, Skrtel, Jon Flanagan, Spearing. Now they have Lallana and his sh*t beard/quiff combo.

I don't know, I Pelle could give him a run for his money. He's such a dream boat.

When they finished 5th with 72 points, then plummeted to 6th with 69 points? Okay.

Nobody has £60m in player sales to help fund their transfer kitty either. There is no guarantee everyone we sign will be brilliant but £60m will buy you a lot of talent.

Three? Nobody else will have three new players in their starting 11? Okay.

FFS! We got rid of Adam and Luke FFS! One minute our fans are moaning about selling them, the next they are moaning about having too many in the first half of the alphabet FFS! No pleasing some people FFS! FFS! FFS!

Not bad, although I doubt alpine had the brain power to come up with that. I'd expect him to come up with something like 'Marsh*t'. Noclueman is a good shout too.

From our current squad I'd say we are still short a LB to replace Shaw, AM to replace Guly, ST to replace Mayuka/Osvaldo and GK because Gazza is crap. Those 4 in and replacements for anyone else who leaves would be about right for me.

He's still got Koeman to come up with though and there should be a couple more signings for alps to get his head around. Best start thinking of some nicknames for Ings, Marshall etc. just in case.

I keep trying to think of a song but just end up with Pelle Pelle Pelle Pelle Pelle Chameleon (as in Culture Club) stuck in my head. Quite irritating TBH. Edit: The best lyric I can come up with (I'm not saying it's good) is: Pelle Pelle Pelle Pelle Pelle from Feyenoord He's gone and scored He's gone and scoooooooored

We've only got 23 players so I can't see how we would be paying 30 of them £30k a week. That includes Gallagher, Reed, Gazza and JWP who wont be on anything like £30k. Mayuka, Sharp and Osvaldo will leave giving us on on the smaller squads and wage bills in the Premier League.

Osvaldo isn't coming back. Too many bridges burned and it's fairly apparent he doesn't want to be here. Recoup what we can from this sorry mess and move on.

You'd think we might have delayed the kit launch so he could model it. I'm slightly dubious at spending a fairly large amount on a 29 year old who has only done it in the NL but I've not seen him play. I will bow to Rokos vastly superior knowledge on this one. Welcome Graz!

We could name the petting zoo after him.

I keep remembering random sh*te players from that period. Like Vincent Perricard, wasn't he good.

You can but if the A340 guys didn't even bother to look out the window, it's unlikely they were checking TCAS either.

I remember that result, almost fondly. I'd just got a base transfer in my job, down to Bristol ironically, and that game was a couple of days before I moved. It coincided with the end of our pain as Saints fans. The next game was at home to Gilingham and we battered them 4-1, since then we went on a run of top 2 form for nearly 3 years, aside from a brief blip when Pardew was sacked.

I think Anthony Pulis has got to be up there with the worst of them. Couldn't even get off the bench when we were at the absolute bare bones, was purely there to make up the numbers. I remember one fleeting appearance in a preseason friendly. He had a shot go out for a throw in and was never seen again. Steven O'Halloran, he was dreadful. I remember Martin O'Neal slating us for not giving him a game and wondering if he had ever actually seen Steven train. Also the club never actually announced that Useless Safri had left. There were some rumours on dodgy foreign websites about him going to the Middle East and then he sort of disappeared and was never mentioned again.

There was another, lesser known, 3-0 home defeat to Watford IIRC. Under Burley, when he played Jermaine Wright at LB and had Euell in front of him as the supposed winger. We had Vignal and Skacel on the bench. I don't think I've ever left a game that angry before, it really was a case of playing Wright at absolutely any cost. Absolutely clueless ineptitude on Burley's part which started me thinking he did genuinely have an alcohol problem. I think that was the game he just sat there like a lemon when we were 3-0 for half an hour, then threw Adam Hammill on with 2 minutes to go. The crowd REALLY got on his back at that point. Clueless manager.

TCAS will not activate bellow 1000ft and in any case the A340 most likely didn't have his in TARA mode on the ground, which would give avoidance commands. No idea who said what on ATC but the crew of that A340 deserve a good slap for crossing an active runway without even a casual glance to see what's coming. It's not a common occurrence but happens from time to time and isn't newsworthy. When I heard on the news that, 'none of the passengers were injured,' I almost died of face palm.